Rage Inside the Machine

In Rage Inside the Machine, Rob Smith has written a fascinating hybrid text – a compelling memoir, a moving mosaic of history and technology, and, most important, the timeliest of warnings for our increasingly dangerous era of ubiquitous AI and algorithms … Read this book and take its carefully crafted message to heart. – David Goldberg, author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine LearningIn Rage Inside the Machine, Rob Smith accomplishes what few people could attempt: to humanize the discourse on artificial intelligence. – Chris Kutarna, co-author of Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second RenaissanceRob Smith humanises the dark and confused topic of AI and calls us to action. A beautiful, accessible and truly important book … I loved it. – Derren Brown, illusionist and author of Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely FineIn an age when more and more decisions of our lives are made by algorithms, it’s vital for anyone, not just techies, to understand how data can change our lives. Rob Smith has a unique ability to express the complicated future of AI in a very simple manner. Read it if you want to stay human. – Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, Founder of Consciously Digital and author of Homo DistractusRage Inside the Machine is a guide to how we got here, conceptually and historically. Rob Smith appreciates the successes of AI, but also warns that incomprehensibly complex data driven systems are not easily corrected, and can make major mistakes. – David Leinweber, author of Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired MarketsRob Smith shines a light on the dangers of accepting a passive role in our relationship with tech. Essential reading for anyone wanting to know how to keep their sanity and humanity in the age of super-tech. – Helen Bagnall, Founder of Salon LondonRobert Smith’s new book takes a subject that is intimidating for non-tech folk, and creates an accessible and riveting read. I found it so informative. It’s opened my eye to the role algorithms play in the divisiveness of social media. – Tracy Ann Oberman, actor, writer and activistA sobering and inspiring read: not merely a puncturing of the tediously overinflated AI hype bubble - it’s also a thrilling manifesto for what AI teaches us about real human cognition. – Cory Doctorow, author of ‘Radicalized’ and ‘Walkaway’, and co-founder of the Open Rights Group

Rob Smith authored over 35 journal articles, 10 book chapters, and over 75 conference papers on these subjects. He has conducted research projects for the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, The Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, NASA, Boeing, NSF, EPSRC, the European Union, DERA, British Aerospace, Airbus, and British Telecom. Rob is a former Associate Editor of The IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and the journal Evolutionary Computation and a fellow of the RSA: The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Currently, he works as Chief Technology Office for BOXARR Ltd, a company he helped to found. He also works part time as a Senior Research Fellow of Computer Science at University College London, where he was also a founding member of The UCL Centre for The Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty.